{"id":45023,"date":"2017-12-08T16:46:01","date_gmt":"2017-12-08T16:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/?p=45023"},"modified":"2018-02-21T15:16:10","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T15:16:10","slug":"acc-riverbats-all-stars-reign-over-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/2017\/12\/08\/acc-riverbats-all-stars-reign-over-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"ACC Riverbats All-Stars reign over Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ACC\u2019s intramural basketball all-stars faced off with Australia\u2019s Doncaster College Wednesday, December 6, and came home victors. The women Riverbats won 68 to 27 while the men Riverbats won 74 to 40.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibition basketball games were the college\u2019s seventh face-off against Australian college teams.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s an exhilarating experience for our students,\u201d says Tracy Partin, ACC intramural sports &amp; recreation coordinator. \u201cThey take great pride in representative ACC. Being selected for the exhibition games isn\u2019t easy. These students are the best of the best on our intramurals team. It\u2019s a great honor. I\u2019m proud of their hard work and accomplishments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by ACC Student Life, the college\u2019s intramural sports\u00a0take place in\u00a0fall and spring, with registration opening the first week of each semester. Sports include basketball, men\u2019s and women\u2019s soccer, coed softball, and flag football.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIntramurals are becoming increasingly popular,\u201d says Partin. \u201cMore than 1,000 students are involved in our leagues each year. It\u2019s a great way to connect with other students and with the college.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the intramurals program, visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/sl\/\">austincc.edu\/sl\u00a0<\/a>or contact Partin at 512-223-6543 or\u00a0<a href=\"tpartin@austincc.edu\">tpartin@austincc.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>View photos from this year\u2019s game:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/accdistrict\/albums\/72157690067240554\" title=\"ACC vs Australia by Austin Community College, on Flickr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img src='https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/4529\/38009916975_e70bd40fa6.jpg' width='800' height='600' alt='ACC vs Doncaster Womens Basketball'><\/a><script async src='https:\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js' charset='utf-8'><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ACC\u2019s intramural basketball all-stars faced off with Australia\u2019s Doncaster College Wednesday, December 6, and came home victors. The women Riverbats won 68 to 27 while the men Riverbats won 74 to 40. The exhibition basketball &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/2017\/12\/08\/acc-riverbats-all-stars-reign-over-australia\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3556,"featured_media":45025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[682,681,1788,680,453],"class_list":["post-45023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-announcements","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-doncaster-college","tag-intramurals","tag-riverbats"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}